What is the best temperature to incubate duck eggs?

Answer 1

In A Guide to Better Hatching, by Janet Stromberg, She suggests for most ducks 28 days at 99.5 degrees. Muscovy ducks take 35-37 days. A still air incubator is recommended and increasing the temperature by 2 to 3 degrees. The book can be gotten by contacting Stromberg Publishing Box 400, Pine River, Minnesota 56474. All kinds of poultry, advice is found in the book. Happy hatching. Dogma

Answer 2

Incubation Period Hatching Period Days 1 through 25 Days 26 through 28 Temperature 99.5° Fahrenheit 98.5° Fahrenheit Humidity 86% 94% Turns Per Day 3, 5, or 7 Stop Turning

Answer 3

99.5 degrees Fahrenheit (37.5 degrees Celsius) is optimum incubating temp. for duck eggs with the temp. being lowered by one degree to 98.5 in the last 3 days of incubation (25-28th day).

Lowest temp. - highest temp. range is 97 - 102. If the incubator stays at either of these extremes however, the embryo will die or be severely affected resulting in an overall decreased hatch rate.

Answer 4

A real accurate thermometer is needed for any incubator. For Ducks it should be set at 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit at first...run the incubator empty for at least a day to make sure it stays stable at that temp. Then the eggs can be placed in the incubator for 25 days at that temp. Days 26-28 the temp should be 98.5 remember to only change a half degree at a time and wait for several hours to make sure it has become stable at that temp before adjusting again. If you don't wait for it to get stable you will tend to over adjust and possibly kill the eggs. If you don't get down to the ideal temp on schedule for day 26 don't panic..it is not as critical as over adjusting too fast.

Humidity is also very important. Humidity should be 86 for the first 25 days and 94 thereafter.

Also if your incubator does not have a automatic turner you will need to turn the eggs an odd number of times each day so that they don't sit on the same side too many times for a long period of time. I mark mine with an X on one side so I know which side has been up last. An automatic turner does it every hour. I do it 5 evenly spaced times through out my day and make sure if the x was up one night it is not the next.

Answer 5

i do not know just keep it warm and wate up to 40 days for it to hach if it dose not hach then there was not a baby duck in the egg

Answer 6

30-50 degrees Celsius

Answer 7

40-45 o c